Re: [Vo]:Rossi comments on the It was sent back statement

2012-01-16 Thread Bob Higgins
Which shows that 1 g atomic hydrogen can release 5.35 x 10^16 kWh of . . . -- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Re: Defkalion GT send video of internal testing

2012-01-30 Thread Bob Higgins
seems to be operated via a transformer that is fed with a Variac (variable transformer). The plot at the end shows temperature(s) vs. time. Bob Higgins On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: It is an industrial research lab, people are working with new self

Re: [Vo]:RE: Defkalion video of internal testing

2012-01-30 Thread Bob Higgins
(and their large H2 bottle may be evidence that they have found this to be the case), but it is not clear where the argon will come from for diluting that much discharged hydrogen. Any thoughts? Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Higgins
Nice posts on the Rydberg effects, Axil. I like reading them. Please continue posting them. But, I am confused. Could you can help me understand these questions: Rydberg hydrogen has a very loosely bound electron. How would these Rydberg electrons survive high temperature phonon collisions

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol

2012-03-21 Thread Bob Higgins
Axil, these are interesting posts that will stir our imagination. However, some of what you said doesn't ring true and some of it I just don't understand. You said: *Rossi’s previous work experience includes the development of prototype thermionic converter, so he should know all about Rydberg

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol

2012-03-22 Thread Bob Higgins
Of course, I was not there to personally witness any of the hardware or the testing. I am working entirely from second hand reports of what was done. Rossi appears to have been well versed in the behavior of his smaller, early systems in terms of warm-up, self-sustain, re-start/maintenance

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol

2012-03-22 Thread Bob Higgins
Axil, please keep thinking, posting, and discussing. It is what this vo-collective is for! They are good explorations. I believe the reason for the Rossi's flattened reactor is simply to better couple the heat out of the powder. The inside may be filled with posts to further improve the

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Bob Higgins
-- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Bob Higgins
else the insulation and controllability 2012/7/15 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com Doesn't look like glow plugs: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8rh=n%3A15729261page=1 -- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Bob Higgins
for heating is very natural, since it is very resistant, cheap, and easy to find. -- Regards, Bob Higgins

[Vo]:Rossi catalyst-fuel speculation

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Higgins
Since Rossi’s public display of his reactor and subsequent discussions of his technology, I have been anxious to reproduce his results – primarily just to know that it is a real phenomenon. I listen to the excellent exchanges on Vortex and have learned much from the posts here. As I continue

Re: [Vo]:Identity of a DGT third party (?) tester inadvertently made public through a PowerPoint presentation

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Higgins
a thing, by the way. I don't bug them, because they have signed NDAs. That's a pretty sad experimental setup, isn't it? - Jed -- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Topology is Key. Carbon Nanostructures are King

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Higgins
The CNT hypothesis it is interesting in that it provides a way engineer the nano-feature cavities. However, a problem may exist with this strategy if Peter Hagelstein's theory is correct. According to Hagelstein, the excited fused nucleus relaxes to a ground state by emitting multiple phonons

Re: [Vo]:Topology is Key. Carbon Nanostructures are King

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Higgins
Peter Hagelstein says that transmutation of nickel to copper is overall endothermic. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ** ** If you want to show the heat came from the transmutation - that is a far different story, and Piantelli or no one else has come

[Vo]:Obscure possible LENR explosion

2012-08-27 Thread Bob Higgins
As I read about spectacular explosions in LENR experiments - that appear to have explosive energy beyond available chemical means - I recall something I read in a book that may be somewhat obscure to this forum. In Robert Hazen's book, the Diamond makers, he describes the history of high

Re: [Vo]:Obscure possible LENR explosion

2012-08-27 Thread Bob Higgins
complex ... ... Shrapnel sprayed out across the room and ricocheted off the walls and ceiling. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: As I read about spectacular explosions in LENR experiments - that appear to have explosive energy beyond available chemical means

Re: [Vo]:Obscure possible LENR explosion

2012-08-28 Thread Bob Higgins
powder - an AlSiMag ceramic powder blend - probably also full of nano-cracks when compressed under such force. Could a high rate LENR have caused the explosion that tore the machine apart? Bob On Aug 27, 2012, at 6:09 PM, Bob Higgins wrote [*corrected*]: As I read about spectacular explosions

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin Energy- 20 Million funding

2012-09-07 Thread Bob Higgins
will be on the last legs and they will not pay their invoices. - Jed -- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:ECat convention (Report day 1)

2012-09-09 Thread Bob Higgins
The Kullander report of the 6 month used ash stated that it contains 10% Cu and 11% Fe. It is not clear by what analysis that assessment was made, but it was likely EDAX (Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectral analysis), normally made via SEM. Such analysis is a surface measurement. In the case of

Re: [Vo]:ECat convention (Report day 1)

2012-09-09 Thread Bob Higgins
. This is a secondary negligible phenomena and nearly most of what is detected is due contamination. 2012/9/9 Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com The Kullander report of the 6 month used ash stated that it contains 10% Cu and 11% Fe. It is not clear by what analysis that assessment was made

Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-22 Thread Bob Higgins
the problem different ways. The only question is which of the proposed methods (theories) provides the most logical description of observed behavior and best predictions, because they all contain the consequence of this dilemma. Can we focus the discussion on this dilemma? Ed -- Regards, Bob

[Vo]: Atomic Collapse observed

2013-03-08 Thread Bob Higgins
Predicted Atomic Collapse phenomenon observed: http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/long-predicted-atomic-collapse-state-observed-graphene

[Vo]:3rd Party Report Released

2013-05-20 Thread Bob Higgins
Kudos to A. Rossi for this huge step forward in validation of his work! One thing in the report that I find incredible was the amount of fuel that was measured by cutting open the inner cylinder and dumping out the catalyst-fuel - supposedly only 0.6g. This is a tiny amount of nickel powder.

Re: [Vo]:Isotope separation technology can be improved

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Higgins
I don't understand why 62Ni would make a difference in the reaction. Are we now seriously considering that the Ni nucleus participates in the nuclear reaction that causes the heat? Dr. Storms proposes that physical cracks in the lattice are the NAE and the money crop of the reaction does not

Re: [Vo]:[Vo] substitutes?

2013-05-21 Thread Bob Higgins
the deuterium will be used up, and you'll have to replenish it. In this instance, it is the deuterium that is being replenished and not an isotope of nickel. Eric -- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:A hybridized QM/CQM approach to the Rossi effect with Nickel-62

2013-05-23 Thread Bob Higgins
As a Rossi watcher, I notice what he has done historically. All of his low temperature reactors have been lined with a thin layer of lead. Rossi states that the reaction emits low energy photons in the 10's of keV up to about 100keV. This is consistent with the amount of lead that has been seen

Re: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:My evaluation of the Rossi test

2013-05-24 Thread Bob Higgins
But, is there anything that can be gleaned from the anecdotal information of a hotCat melt-down? Something that strikes me is that if the heat was generated as phonons locally at the NAE, then the NAE would be the hottest part of the reactor. If a reactor melted, it would be with the NAE hotter

[Vo]:Speculation about hotCat

2013-05-29 Thread Bob Higgins
I would like to submit my speculation about the latest Rossi hotCat for discussion on Vortex-l. - We are told that the central reactor core is a 310 stainless steel cylinder ( 3cm by 33cm). There is no port for introduction of H2. The ends are cold welded closed. - When the test

Re: [Vo]:Speculation about hotCat

2013-05-29 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe the cylindrical outer heaters are just resistor coils embedded in a high thermal conductivity ceramic. I suspect that Andrea has at TWO sides of the power triangle more or less regular resistors connected and between the phases at the third side a resistor coil for a very

Re: [Vo]:Speculation about hotCat

2013-05-29 Thread Bob Higgins
As mentioned in a previous thread, it may be possible for the stainless cell to get hotter than the Ni, particularly if the inner coating is thin. If the heat is conveyed from the NAE via photons, the photons could be absorbed in the 3mm thick stainless cell rather than in the thin Ni coating.

Re: [Vo]:Removing nickel oxide layer

2013-05-30 Thread Bob Higgins
as a first step in preparing nickel powder for LENR experiments? Just heat in in a hydrogen environment at temperatures of a few hundred degrees C? -- Regards, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Speculation about hotCat

2013-05-30 Thread Bob Higgins
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:19 PM Eric Walker wrote: ** - We are told that the central reactor core is a 310 stainless steel cylinder ( 3cm by 33cm). There is no port for introduction of H2. The ends are cold welded closed. The ends were cone-shaped AISI 316 steel caps that

Re: [Vo]:Of NAEs and nothingness...

2013-05-31 Thread Bob Higgins
? (A naive guess on my part I am sure.) Can you provide additional insight into your proposition? Regards, Bob Higgins On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: As this mass-energy is reduced, the Coulomb barrier is lowered further, permitting the two nuclei

Re: [Vo]:A show of hands, whose going to ICCF-18?

2013-07-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Bob Higgins will be attending. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Paul Breed p...@rasdoc.com wrote: I am.

Re: [Vo]:Vicinal chemistry, plasmons, Jovion and HotCat

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Higgins
Please correct me if I am wrong ... but in the HotCat, I don't believe any H2 ever comes in contact with the silicon carbide. The silicon carbide is an external cylindrical heater assembly around the 310 SS tube that hermetically contains the Ni, catalyst, and H2. The silicon carbide could be

Re: [Vo]:A hypothetical HotCat 'whispering gallery' at the SiC tube interface.

2013-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
There was no mention in the report of carborundum, the description was a different ceramic material (corundum). Corundum is Al2O3. The ceramic form is common alumina. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.comwrote: corundum is what is noted down in the report

Re: [Vo]:A hypothetical HotCat 'whispering gallery' at the SiC tube interface.

2013-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, I believe you are mistaken. The bottom picture shows the thick alumina (probably not high purity, but rather an AlSiMag blend) with the slots for the resistor wires in the middle. Inside this is only the stainless tube - blackened by the refractory sealant they put over that whole end in

Re: [Vo]:A hypothetical HotCat 'whispering gallery' at the SiC tube interface.

2013-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
is not steel. ** ** ** ** *From:* Bob Higgins ** ** Jones, I believe you are mistaken. The bottom picture shows the thick alumina (probably not high purity, but rather an AlSiMag blend) with the slots for the resistor wires in the middle. Inside this is only the stainless tube

Re: [Vo]:A hypothetical HotCat 'whispering gallery' at the SiC tube interface.

2013-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
- the welded coaxial reactor cell. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Bob Higgins The photo links you supplied appear to be from Fabio Penon's report of 8/7/2012. In this report, he states that this inner tube is stainless steel

Re: [Vo]:A hypothetical HotCat 'whispering gallery' at the SiC tube interface.

2013-07-05 Thread Bob Higgins
In the design previously reported by Penon (8/2012), we have to conclude that it was functional - perhaps exceptionally so, because it melted down. In this design the only place to contain the H2 would be in a thin layer between the proposed close fitting concentric tubes welded to appear as a

Re: [Vo]:Interesting paper from nature about successful cold fusion experiment

2013-07-07 Thread Bob Higgins
It seems to me that for this definition to work, even as a phenomenological definition, something more would need to be added regarding the expected radiation. For example, one could say without the radiation expected from previous experiments in hot fusion. However, clarifying it this way

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-16 Thread Bob Higgins
outright calling these nay-sayer physicists chicken. Regards, Bob Higgins On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/07/15/why-cold-fusion-has-to-die/ [mg]

Re: [Vo]:Ghost of the HotCat ?

2013-07-18 Thread Bob Higgins
One of the differences between the HotCat and Rossi's original eCat was that the original devices were loaded with H2 and THEN heated. This allowed the H2 to be present while the eCat was heating to the reaction operating point (300C). Apparently in this transition from cold to ~300C, there is a

[Vo]:Defkalion magnetic field

2013-07-26 Thread Bob Higgins
In Dr. Y. E. Kim's ICCF-18 presentation he reported that at initiation of the sparking drive, the external magnetic field was measured as 0.6 Tesla. [He did not say what the magnetic field was while cold or during warm-up, but the implication was that there was little or no field.] When excess

[Vo]:A paper about my LENR work with carbonyl Ni

2013-08-02 Thread Bob Higgins
, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:A paper about my LENR work with carbonyl Ni

2013-08-03 Thread Bob Higgins
it to Vortex-L, it is too big. I can send it to you directly, but it doesn't solve the problems for the other Vorts. On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 9:55 AM, torulf.gr...@bredband.net wrote: I can not download this PDF. How das I do? On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 20:10:31 -0400, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]:A paper about my LENR work with carbonyl Ni

2013-08-03 Thread Bob Higgins
://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg84258.html ** ** Potassium carbonate (and sodium bicarb?) also seem to behave energetically in the video shown here: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg84774.html ** ** ** ** *From:* Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:A paper about my LENR work with carbonyl Ni

2013-08-03 Thread Bob Higgins
I am not sure this would apply equally to the powders I am making (but it might). If you look at the SEM of the thermochemically modified powder, you see that even though the powder is held together at touch points, it is still highly porous down to near nanoscale. This powder still has oxide that

Re: [Vo]:A paper about my LENR work with carbonyl Ni

2013-08-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Sorry Axil, I don't suspend my particles in a separate matrix as does Defkalion. My technique is more like that of Rossi. The spark plugs are not required to see the LENR. Neither Rossi's original eCat nor his latest HotCats have any sparkplugs or RF excitation. Reports suggest that they are not

Re: [Vo]:Abd's take on Defkalion's recent claims.

2013-08-13 Thread Bob Higgins
Somewhere in a previous post I saw DGT's spark pulse numbers of 24 kV at 22 mA peak with a rep rate in the kHz range. This is over 500W of pulse power. The wires leading to the spark plugs are of significant size and will make good radiators. Normal CDI type of spark pulsers have nanosecond rise

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: about the Nuclear Active Environment

2013-08-20 Thread Bob Higgins
In the case of craters and mini-explosions, regardless of the true nature of a nano-NAE, it is interesting to consider the implications of explosion to the nature of the excited nucleus energy release. If the energy were released by phonons, the temperature would be highest near the NAE and would

[Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Higgins
Recently, Peter published in his blog his reasons for hoping that the NAE aren’t cracks. After considering it, I believe he misses the uniqueness, durability, and beauty of the cracks that are being considered. To the uniqueness point… Consider that a crack is different than just two

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Higgins
condition and mechanism would be able to cause it. You take the opposite view, that every material and isotope requires a different method and NAE. This gives people a choice. I wonder how the vote would go? Ed Peter , On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Higgins
cells? the box of interest starts with the following... Modified Ni Crystal powders The 5 micron particle is pictured on that page. Can you see it now... On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: The carbony Ni particles used by DGT, as was shown

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Higgins
with the rutile process. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: Yes. What is shown is a carbonyl Ni particle. It has no nanowires. It does have points, but no nanowires. Nanowires would not be visible at the scale of that micrograph. On Aug 23, 2013 2:29 PM, Axil

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Bob Higgins
NickelHydride. Would that alone not be sufficient to keep the process running? Best, Rob Woudenberg On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: The micrograph is of carbonyl Ni. Look it up. For example, Hunter Chemical AH50. Also, Vale T255. It is the same

RE: [Vo]:MFMP detects GAMMA rays in LENR experiment!

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe the MFMP attempt to detect gamma is the correct thing to do. From my own personal experience, I can say that proving that the heat in your test is from a nuclear process is a high hurdle. When you first begin generating LENR, you likely will not be optimized to the point where very

RE: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Higgins
I would say that the detected radiation is NOT extraordinary. Dr. Storms published a paper on his measurements of radiation from LENR experiments. Early Focardi reports of the work he and Rossi were doing indicated gamma radiation. The reports of micron-size-explosions are evidence of

RE: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Higgins
X-rays and gamma rays are, in general, not activating, I.E. no radioactive species would be created by prolonged exposure to these photons. That doesn't mean that LENR cannot create radioactive elements - it may well prove to do so (for example tritium). However, the process for this to occur is

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Higgins
...@gibbs.com wrote: Yes, I meant not significant ... that was what I took away from Bob Higgins' comment: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: From a product perspective, don’t forget that CRT’s produce X-rays in this energy range. The CRTs were later

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Publishes His Theoretic Notes vis Focardi

2013-11-19 Thread Bob Higgins
This is likes a Schaum's outline math reference in Italian. I don't think there is anything useful here, but I could be proven wrong. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:00 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Re:

2013-12-05 Thread Bob Higgins
One could compare the gamma emission of the metal as a powder with a corresponding similar mass of the same metal as a solid geometric form (say a sphere). Then using ordinary rules for absorption (not extraordinary rules), what should the activity be? I am sure this has been done, and if there

Re: [Vo]:Re:

2013-12-06 Thread Bob Higgins
A good person to ask this type of question might be Dr. Storms. He has his Ph.D in and long career history with radio-chemistry. On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: One could

Re: [Vo]:Exponential growth in Solar Energy

2013-12-12 Thread Bob Higgins
To get kWH/day from peak kW in PV, you multiply by the average full power equivalent hours per day. In FL, this is 4 hours (mostly due to clouds). In NM the number is 5. In the continental US as a whole, the number is probably about 3.5-4. This is for a fixed (not tracking) array. This number

Re: [Vo]:Exponential growth in Solar Energy

2013-12-12 Thread Bob Higgins
. On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 5.3 kW peak fixed PV system that provides most of the power for my house. Wow! How many square feet is that? How much did it cost? - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Exponential growth in Solar Energy

2013-12-12 Thread Bob Higgins
to. I designed the system myself, but I am an EE. On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: It works great. Is it cost effective?

Re: [Vo]:energy driven superconductivity and IR coherence for LENR

2014-01-26 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, I believe you have a misconception about what the hotCat is. In the hotCat, both the metal hydride and Rossi's magic nickel powder are encased entirely in stainless steel. I am near 100% certain he does this by using 2 concentric stainless tubes machined with an interior space for his

Re: [Vo]:energy driven superconductivity and IR coherence for LENR

2014-01-26 Thread Bob Higgins
about how he and Focardi came to use this silicon carbide tube, based on a visit to one of the Labs run by the Italian government. Not sure, but that page may still be there. From: Bob Higgins I believe you have

Re: [Vo]:energy driven superconductivity and IR coherence for LENR

2014-01-26 Thread Bob Higgins
, where he was greatly respected - were critical to the success they had. *From:* Bob Higgins Jones, SiC is a brittle super-hard ceramic and I don't believe Penon could have mistaken a SiC carbide tube for stainless

Re: [Vo]:energy driven superconductivity and IR coherence for LENR

2014-01-27 Thread Bob Higgins
Note that superconductors are only zero resistance for DC. As the frequency goes up, there is a finite resistance that increases with frequency. At 1 GHz RF, the superconductor still has some advantage over copper at the same frequency. As you start going beyond 10 GHz superconductors become

Re: [Vo]:energy driven superconductivity and IR coherence for LENR

2014-01-28 Thread Bob Higgins
Dave, See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_radio_frequency The R_BCS, which is the surface resistance, goes as f^2. We looked at making cellular combiner cavities out of superconductors at the time of the early years of the HTC superconductors. It turned out that there was a

Re: [Vo]:Higgs and LENR

2014-01-31 Thread Bob Higgins
energy bremsstrahlung spectrum that would be easily detectable outside the apparatus - wouldn't they? Bob Higgins On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Fran, do you realize how strange this explanation sounds? The H has to climb over a Coulomb barrier having

Re: [Vo]:a note from Dr. Stoyan Sargoytchev

2014-02-02 Thread Bob Higgins
Sargoytchev mentions the Demron technology for high energy gamma reduction. The Demron specification says that it reduces the 662 keV gamma from 137Cs by only 1% (not an attenuation factor of .01, an attenuation factor of 0.99; I.E. almost no attenuation) which would be expected. High energy

Re: [Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Has anyone noticed that in Mills' drawings of the MHD converter that he has the direction of the coils and the B field wrong for the directions that he wants his positive and negative ions to travel? At 53:13, he is showing a slide with an axial B field and presumably with the plasma split and

Re: [Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-03 Thread Bob Higgins
I haven't made it to the QA yet. Mills talked about there being a 100:1 energy ratio between gasoline and water. In other words, a car would go as far on 1 gallon of water as 100 gallons of gasoline. He made the case for a microliter of water producing 1000J of excess heat which is about 1

Re: [Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-03 Thread Bob Higgins
It is interesting to do a little math around this experiment. Presume that the popper is operating with a fuel of 1 microliter of water and produces a net excess energy of 1000 joules. Presume Mills to be correct in assigning most of the reaction is conversion to 1/4 hydrino state that is

Re: [Vo]:Re: BLP video is out

2014-02-04 Thread Bob Higgins
In the experiment the amount of fuel was according to R.Mills : 10 microliter. The amount of energy liberated from the transition of H to H1/4 is 204 eV atom Peter *From:* Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com *Sent:* Tuesday, February 04, 2014 5:04 AM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Cc:* Bob

Re: [Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-04 Thread Bob Higgins
While I don't mean to under-celebrate Mills' over-unity success, please note that this COP of 2 is to THERMAL. However, In Mills' case, the thermal energy appears to be relatively high enthalpy and efficient conversion to electrical for feedback to the input may be possible. With a COP of 2 to

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Higgins
in that manner, there are plenty of NAE somewhere. It is easy to believe that this structure (from the SEM pictures) will be rife with nanocracks as Dr. Storms suggests for the NAE. In fact, the NAE are likely to be features you cannot see under the SEM rather than the features you can see. Bob

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe that some fractionation must be taking place, but not to phonons. Phonons are contra-indicated by the experimental evidence. Phonons dissipate rapidly to heat with a decay constant that is based on the acoustic velocity. This means that the temperature will be extremely high near the

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-08 Thread Bob Higgins
effects. So in this scenario, 100% efficient fractionating is possible. Bob Higgins

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-08 Thread Bob Higgins
and I want to correlate these with emitted photons. Unfortunately, I am on a temporary hold to get myself and my little lab moved across the US to NM. Bob On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]:More Magnetic Coupling Thoughts

2014-02-09 Thread Bob Higgins
. As you start approaching the sources, or are surrounded by them, the field will depend on the inverse square to each of the sources. It becomes a distributed source calculation. Bob Higgins On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: There is no limit on the strength

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-09 Thread Bob Higgins
I thought the justifications for these mechanical over-unity machines came from some kind of non-conservation during JERK (the derivative of acceleration) and the machines were designed to produce jerk. Does anyone else remember the justification based on non-conservation during jerk? Perhaps

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-02-10 Thread Bob Higgins
LENR device to make it to market. Having a shipping product inside another product is a sure track to a device patent. This could be the finger removed from the dike. Bob Higgins On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Swartz is credible! However

Re: [Vo]:Too much solar PV electricity in Hawii

2014-02-13 Thread Bob Higgins
This is largely a problem with grid-tie solar inversion and the fact that solar generation only happens during the day. As long as the utility company has less PV inverted than the difference between their daytime and nighttime loads, it is better for them to have the PV generation. Once the PV

Re: [Vo]:Extraordinarily disappointing report

2014-02-20 Thread Bob Higgins
be discern-able after modeling if real. Bob Higgins On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: http://www.blacklightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/GlumacReport2.pdf A tenth of a degree or less rise in temperature in the calorimeter. Everything extrapolated from

Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2014-03-09 Thread Bob Higgins
I can tell you from first hand experience that SEM analysis is MUCH harder than it sounds. I have had access to a good, but not great SEM for analysis of my powders. Features at the nanoscale simply were not resolve-able with that SEM. Perhaps with the world's finest SEM, you might be able to

Re: [Vo]: Cheap hydrogen claim

2014-03-15 Thread Bob Higgins
If true, that is one heck of a claim - they would be claiming an over-unity COP of 443 (44300%). I checked the math. 2797 SCF of H2 - IS - equivalent to 221.5 kWH. What I think is probably wrong is the 500W input - it must be a typo. They must mean 500kW input. This would put their COP to be

Re: [Vo]:US Examiner Addresses Andrea Rossi US Patent Application

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Higgins
understanding of LENR*. The real opportunity is writing patents on the multitude of apparatus that will use LENR, that will provide a means of throttling the reaction, that will make it more durable, or will make it safer. It is really, really hard to build a company on a trade secret. - Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:US Examiner Addresses Andrea Rossi US Patent Application

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Higgins
come in such difficult waters. He still holds his secret (but with a tenuous grasp). Bob Higgins On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Well, he did not understand how his device operated, first-off, and secondly there was already a ton of prior art

Re: [Vo]:Is Mizuno poining at Ryberg matter or not?

2014-04-08 Thread Bob Higgins
in such a hydroton configuration may be the progressive conversion to an ever more fractional state, and when Mills' minimum size of 1/137 is reached, fusion occurs. The hydroton configuration could provide the evanescent coupling needed to take the H to fractional levels. Bob Higgins On Tue, Apr 8

Re: [Vo]:Is Mizuno poining at Ryberg matter or not?

2014-04-08 Thread Bob Higgins
' minimum size of 1/137 is reached, fusion occurs. The hydroton configuration could provide the evanescent coupling needed to take the H to fractional levels. Bob Higgins On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.comwrote: Recent positive responses to Mizuno's work present

Re: [Vo]:Is Mizuno poining at Ryberg matter or not?

2014-04-08 Thread Bob Higgins
. I look forward to reading his full theory when he publishes it. Bob On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: One way to successively remove the energy in such a hydroton

Re: [Vo]:Rossi long term test

2014-04-11 Thread Bob Higgins
As an engineer, I would love to take on that product challenge. I am moving to a cold climate area. Cold climate heat pumps still only produce a COP of about 2-3 and have a lot of control to keep the exchanger from becoming frozen (frequent defrost cycles). It is a split unit that still needs

Re: [Vo]:The real chemical energy of nascent hydrogen

2014-04-15 Thread Bob Higgins
with a mistake in H enthalpy of a factor of 2.4 is off the mark by a huge factor (100's to 10's of thousands) and the statement is wholly specious. Bob Higgins On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Just to be clear, one can state with certainty that burning hydrogen

Re: [Vo]:The real chemical energy of nascent hydrogen

2014-04-15 Thread Bob Higgins
15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins These experiments are generally run with a small fixed charge of H2, which puts strict limits on the available energy from H2 burning or chemical energy in general. Hi Bob, Actually no. The fixed charge

Re: [Vo]:Thermal inertia

2014-04-15 Thread Bob Higgins
I think it is much more likely that Rossi's reaction is positive feedback when operating, is chaotic in nature (discontinuous), and requires a temperature threshold for the reaction to work. First, positive feedback - when the temperature is higher the reaction rate is higher, causing the

Re: [Vo]:Vortex-l LENR Patent Application- Motorola

2014-04-22 Thread Bob Higgins
associated with Widom Larsen. I have a great deal of respect for his creativity and ingenuity. Bob Higgins On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: This patent is a huge surprise. Not only is the technique obvious, many other filings which relate to LENR have

Re: [Vo]:Optics, magnetics spinplasmonics

2014-04-24 Thread Bob Higgins
that mu-metal had the greatest LENR rate of the materials he tried. Bob Higgins On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Just when it looked like things were becoming clearer in LENR theory, they seem to have become more complicated. Ockham fails again

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